Please explain how to derive the magnetism of polyatomic molecules? If we derive it using an addition of an oxygen atom to molecular oxygen ($\ce{O2}$) it will come to be paramagnetic like $\ce{O3}$?
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asked Mar 1, 2014 at 16:10
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Ozone's ground state is a singlet. All electrons therein are paired,
However,
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1134%2FS0018143906040060#page-1
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1134%2F1.1870062#page-1
